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Intel Still Playing With i830GM/845G Stability

Phoronix: Intel Still Playing With i830GM/845G Stability

Intel is still working on some minor xf86-video-intel driver changes to address stability issues for the very old i830GM and i845G chipsets. A new Intel X.Org driver update was released on Wednesday to take care of more changes...

On this pair of chipsets, the kernel will perform an extra copy of the batchbuffer into reserved memory, which prevents them from randomly dying.

lol...

Good thing they are still taking care of these (apparently buggy) cards. I'm definitly taking newer Intel chips into consideration now whenever I'm going to purchase new HW. Which is pretty rare, but still...

Good thing they are still taking care of these (apparently buggy) cards. I'm definitly taking newer Intel chips into consideration now whenever I'm going to purchase new HW. Which is pretty rare, but still...

New Intel chips are just great. You can even play games like Team Fortress 2 in Linux with them.

I have AMD and nVidia cards, and there is no way I would buy them instead of Intel graphics, unless I would want maxed graphics in TF2, which is just not worth it.